Federal DEI, ‘wokeness’ restrictions put California homeless providers in a bind

HOMELESS SERVICE PROVIDERS across California — and as much as $683 million in federal funding for the state’s most economically vulnerable residents — have been caught up in the Trump administration’s war on “wokeness.” 

Beginning earlier this spring, organizations that use federal Continuum of Care Program grant money to provide housing, rental assistance, street outreach and other services to tens of thousands of unhoused Californians started receiving notification from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that those dollars now come with an unusual list of conditions. Grantees would be barred from using the funds to promote “gender ideology,” “elective abortions,” and “illegal immigration,” among other restrictions.